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Regarding the AtS Cancellation
Feb. 15th, 2004 09:25 amAs with so much of the whedonverse... I'm conflicted. I don't think the WB was doing anything personal. It's just business and from a purely business POV I can understand the decision they made. And I feel no sympathy for Joss. I haven't felt sympathy for Joss in years and I'm not going to start now. Joss has consistently shown a rare kind of complete arrogance for years, the kind of arrogance that has characterized a few producer/assholes that have managed to destroy the very things they've created. . .and in a way I'm glad that Joss isn't allowed the time necessary to destroy AtS the way that he did BtVS. Hell, even for all the way I bitch at the regression of Spike and the awful way that he has been written, I still LIKE the AtS characters, something I didn't do at the end of BtVS, so I'm glad that Joss hasn't made me hate the MoG. . .yet. I don't think Joss has any particularly new stories to tell. We've seen his bag of tricks. He's repeating them now.
On the other side of this conflict is my heart -- they unkillable Spikean heart, the one that knew there was no damn hope for the character and yet still always managed to find a way to hope. . .for something. . .for anything. As long as there was time there was hope. I was hoping for love for the character. Maybe, with time, another season, there would be someone (other than Harmony) to LOVE Spike. And maybe Angel would move on. And, hell, Wesley is always good to look out. But time has run out. I'm utterly convinced that Spike will be shit on yet again. Wes is probably going to get some tragically awful ending with Fred. And Angel is going to be left alone... then turn away for is "maybe... someday" shit with Buffy that will just make me want to spit nails and hate Joss and Company more than I already do. (Sigh, over the last few years I've learned that I tend to go the express lane on grief straight to anger in the grieving process. I think I find anger easier to deal with. It's just that I'm not angry with the WB. I'm angry with Joss and his perpetual screwing over of the characters.)
Sigh. Anger aside. I'll miss 'em, is all. I'll miss them. I'll have to go with BAPS's Laurie though and say that at least the characters will be released to fanfic. They'll become ours alone, and we'll take more LOVING care of them than the networks and the producers ever did.
On the other side of this conflict is my heart -- they unkillable Spikean heart, the one that knew there was no damn hope for the character and yet still always managed to find a way to hope. . .for something. . .for anything. As long as there was time there was hope. I was hoping for love for the character. Maybe, with time, another season, there would be someone (other than Harmony) to LOVE Spike. And maybe Angel would move on. And, hell, Wesley is always good to look out. But time has run out. I'm utterly convinced that Spike will be shit on yet again. Wes is probably going to get some tragically awful ending with Fred. And Angel is going to be left alone... then turn away for is "maybe... someday" shit with Buffy that will just make me want to spit nails and hate Joss and Company more than I already do. (Sigh, over the last few years I've learned that I tend to go the express lane on grief straight to anger in the grieving process. I think I find anger easier to deal with. It's just that I'm not angry with the WB. I'm angry with Joss and his perpetual screwing over of the characters.)
Sigh. Anger aside. I'll miss 'em, is all. I'll miss them. I'll have to go with BAPS's Laurie though and say that at least the characters will be released to fanfic. They'll become ours alone, and we'll take more LOVING care of them than the networks and the producers ever did.
